Credit rating model development: An ordered analysis based on accounting data
Citation:
Balios D, Thomadakis S, Tsipouri L. Credit rating model development: An ordered analysis based on accounting data. Research in International Business and Finance. 2016;38(C):122-136.
In this paper we propose and test a methodology for constructing a credit rating model. We follow a polytomous ordered probit analysis leading to the specification of statistically significant credit rating intervals. We test our model with accounting data of Greek listed firms over the years 2004–2013, a period which includes both the pre-crisis growth and the crisis phase of the Greek economy and the stock market. Using the empirically—based rating categories that the model generates endogenously, we observe not only a clear and timely response of ratings to the changing economic environment, but we also obtain significant predictive ability over a period of one, two and three years.
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of Economic Sciences Center of Financial Studies (+30) 694 585 7828 Sofokleous 1 & Aristidou Athens, ZipCode 105 59 tsipouri@econ.uoa.gr
